Perhaps none of our readers remember this man, but Ken Hechler just celebrated his 100th birthday, making him the oldest living member (former or present) of Congress. Mr, Hechler is from West Virginia, my home state, and lived in Huntington, my hometown. I remember seeing him driving around town in his jeep and also that […]
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Happy Birthday Ken Hechler
28 Sep 2014
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Biblical Integration: The Way Forward
28 Sep 2014
I once again apologize for the length of this blog, but I considered the topic too important and complex to be dealt with superficially. So please indulge me in this discussion of biblical integration and forgive any ramblings that may appear. There seems to be some confusion these days about some aspects of what we […]
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Eric Holder–The Activist Attorney General
26 Sep 2014
Nicholas Katzenbach was one of my favorite Attorneys General. Though it may seem odd to begin a post about Eric Holder, the just resigned A.G., with a recollection of an Attorney General from L.B.J.’s administration, please bear with me. Katzenbach, who died in 2012, was a pivotal part of the Kennedy and Johnson presidencies. It […]
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Flood Wall Street – A Misplaced Trickle
24 Sep 2014
While Sunday’s “People’s Climate March” is being described as the largest climate protest event of all time with organizers claiming over 310,000 participants in New York City, the more radical protesters saved their skills for Monday’s “Flood Wall Street” protest. Around 1000 protesters spent the day trying to get in the way in and about Wall […]
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Tish Warren found out that she was the wrong kind of Christian for Vanderbilt. The fact that she was not a fundamentalist, and that her group (affiliated with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship) generally welcomed a very broad range of Christian ideals did not matter much to university leadership. It didn’t matter to them if we were […]
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Chart of the Day–Longest tenured jobs
23 Sep 2014
I find very intriguing the right hand side of the chart (HT to Mark Perry @ Carpe Diem). What do you think explains this? Your answer should to some degree use the 2nd Law of Economics: Incentives Matter! And be nice please….
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Hot Air in New York
22 Sep 2014
The “Climate Mongers” are at it again. Thousands of protesters were out in New York and a few other cities around the world to try to salvage their dying cause of man-made global warming and the associated “solutions” they have variously proposed. The mainstream news media were also on this story like leeches, giving it […]
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A Modest Proposal
22 Sep 2014
It seems an intruder made it onto the White House grounds and through an unlocked front door the other day. The Secret Service didn’t unleash the guard dogs on him, for reasons unknown. And why the front door was unlocked, no one knows yet—although it is a little humorous. So what is the plan of […]
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Answering the Fool
22 Sep 2014
“Answer not a fool according to his folly, lest you be like him yourself. Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.” (Proverbs 26:4-5) In a recent editorial tirade published in The Chronicle of Higher Education, Ivy League professor Peter Conn warned of the danger to “skeptical and […]
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Capitalism and the Common Good
18 Sep 2014
In a September 5, 2014 article “Capitalism and the Common Good” published in Christianity Today, Kevin Brown used the Institute for Faith Work & Economics (IFWE) “I, Smartphone” video and the “conflict mineral” coltan to introduce his topic. Brown is a supporter of the market system. He eloquently provides a utilitarian defense of markets. “Markets have enabled progress and […]